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Actual protection rateImplicit tariff.Similar MatchesContent protectionContent protectionSee domestic content protection. Administered protectionAdministered protectionProtection (tariff or NTB) resulting from the application of any one of several statutes that respond to specified market circumstances or events, usually as determined by an administrative agency. Several such statutes are permitted under the GATT, including anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and safeguards protection. Marine Mammal Protection ActMarine Mammal Protection ActThe 1972 U.S. law prohibiting the "taking" (harassing, hunting, capturing, or killing) of marine mammals, and also prohibiting the import of any marine mammal product or any fish that has been associated with the taking of marine mammals. See tune-dolphin case. Noneconomic objectives argument for protectionNoneconomic objectives argument for protectionThe view that a restriction on imports may serve a purpose outside of conventional economic models. Unless that purpose is itself the restriction of trade, then this is a second-best argument, since changes in output, consumption, etc. can be achieved at lower economic cost in other ways. Patriotism argument for protectionPatriotism argument for protectionThe view that one is helping one's country by buying domestically produced goods instead of imports. In a nondistorted economy, this is not correct, since the country can do better producing where it has a comparative advantage rather than using scarce resources where it does not. Further SuggestionsNational defense argument for protectionDeposit Protection Scheme Investor Protection Scheme loan protection policy Effective protection Cultural argument for protection Exchange rate protection Building Societies Investor Protection Scheme Labor standards argument for protection Protectionism Fairness argument for protection home responsibilities protection mortgage protection Balance of payments argument for protection Political economy of protection Mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) Call protection Self-sufficiency argument for protection protection applied Labor standards argument for protection Downside Protection Environmental protection argument for a trade intervention Externalities argument for protection Endogenous protection Safeguards protection |
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